On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:52:06PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > Nearly everything that's needed for a better system is in place > already with this work but I'd rather see this patch committed to > a branch (so it won't be lost) and then extended to a better overall > UI than risk this incomplete work slipping through into a production > 1.3.0.
I beg to differ. The patch makes some things possible that have not been possible before. Moreover, that feature has been asked for several times. The implementation is fairly good isolated, so it can be ripped off as soon as we _have_ something better. [And no, I don't believe the core is already "there"]. > > I believe I can simplify bibitem a little, though. > > Finish this work and I think you'll find that bibitems could be > incorporated into an improved implementation. The proper solutions IMNSHO are proper insets (and possibly some transition from 'paragraph styles' to 'inset styles' or something close to that). But we are not there and I don't see coming that soon. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)